Sentence examples for justification for authority from inspiring English sources

He tends to think that the only justification for authority is that the chief can do everything the Indian can, and a little bit more.

Importantly, such loose definitions can be easily applied to rights campaigners and dissidents within China, and employed as justification for authorities to punish, silence, or suppress anyone that is seen to be at odds with the government regime.

It is that the typical justifications for authority are all sensitive to context in a way that the claims of law are not.

It is perhaps not too much to say that consent has become the normal justification for political authority.

"Even some people living in the endemic area are unaware of what Valley Fever is". He added there is "no justification" for state authorities not to warn people at risk.

While the resolutions are largely symbolic, many of them provide some legal justification for local authorities to resist cooperating in the federal war on terrorism when they deem civil liberties and Constitutional rights are being compromised.

The rule of law, which has been propagated by the president and his supporters as an alleged justification for the authorities' crackdown on dissidents, is far from upheld.

Legitimacy is a political concern about the justification of authority over groups of people [ 23].

The notion of the Buddha as the supreme being whose reach was not confined to the spiritual realm but all-pervasive even in politics held promise as a possible justification for privileging royal authority over that of aristocracy.

Instead, he used the Gulf of Tonkin resolution -- passed in 1964, in response to reports of a North Vietnamese gunboat attack that Johnson was not even sure were accurate -- as the justification for his own authority to prosecute the war.

OPM's purported justification for this newfound authority does not withstand scrutiny.